NPC 2025 Session: Replicable Strategies, Boosted by Technology: Mayors Panel 

The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate that growth while ensuring quality of life for all residents, cities are increasingly turning to technology. From apps that make it easier for citizens to pitch in on civic improvement projects to comprehensive plans for smarter streets and neighborhoods, new tools and approaches are taking root across the United States and around the world. Three US mayors and the author of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s newest book, City Tech: 20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape, discuss how cities across the United States and beyond are using technology and innovation to enact equitable and sustainable change.

Learning Objectives:

• Investigate the technologies that have emerged in cities over the past few years and their implications for planners, policymakers, and residents
• Identify opportunities for municipalities to integrate technology and innovation into the urban realm
• Assess the roadblocks or barriers to implementing technological advances in urban spaces and learn from specific city initiatives